Motu Proprio Question

[orgel_maestro]

Hey fellow Lovers of the TLM, I was speaking with our pastor about the motu proprio. According to what I've heard, the Motu Proprio would essentially be like the opposite of the universal indult, i.e. instead of priests needing permission from bishops, its priests can celebrate unless the bishops explicitly forbids it, is that right? Well, I was wondering, at my parish, we have 4 priests who reside in the rectory and say Novus Ordo (and one Eritrean) Masses on Sundays. Now, the pastor is a skeptic about the TLM and isnt a big fan of Latin and the Tridentine mass. If one of the priests wanted to celebrate it, would he need to like sort of ask the pastor? Since, normally just doing regular church stuff you'd ask the pastor and in this case you'd have to move a lot of stuff I guess and possibly reinstall altar rails again. (Thank God they never took out the High Altar and the present altar for the Novus Ordo mass is moveable, I'll attach a picture of the High Altar at St. Joseph the Worker's Roman Catholic from Berkeley, CA). High altars are so beatiful, I thought it'd be sacrilege to destroy or remove it which Im sure many parishes did after Vatican II. I guess essentially, my question is do you think there would be much problem or division among priests like that, where the Pastor is very liberal and does not like the TLM while one or two priests in the same parish would like to celebrate it weekly?

[Walking_Home]

Originally Posted by orgel_maestro

Hey fellow Lovers of the TLM, I was speaking with our pastor about the motu proprio. According to what I've heard, the Motu Proprio would essentially be like the opposite of the universal indult, i.e. instead of priests needing permission from bishops, its priests can celebrate unless the bishops explicitly forbids it, is that right? Well, I was wondering, at my parish, we have 4 priests who reside in the rectory and say Novus Ordo (and one Eritrean) Masses on Sundays. Now, the pastor is a skeptic about the TLM and isnt a big fan of Latin and the Tridentine mass. If one of the priests wanted to celebrate it, would he need to like sort of ask the pastor? Since, normally just doing regular church stuff you'd ask the pastor and in this case you'd have to move a lot of stuff I guess and possibly reinstall altar rails again. (Thank God they never took out the High Altar and the present altar for the Novus Ordo mass is moveable, I'll attach a picture of the High Altar at St. Joseph the Worker's Roman Catholic from Berkeley, CA). High altars are so beatiful, I thought it'd be sacrilege to destroy or remove it which Im sure many parishes did after Vatican II. I guess essentially, my question is do you think there would be much problem or division among priests like that, where the Pastor is very liberal and does not like the TLM while one or two priests in the same parish would like to celebrate it weekly?

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I think the best thing to do for now----is wait for the MP. We will then see---how our Pope set it up.

[LeoWong]

This has probably been answered: When the TLM is celebrated, which calendar is used?

Blessings.

[Linda Robinson]

Originally Posted by LeoWong

This has probably been answered: When the TLM is celebrated, which calendar is used?

Blessings.

Dear Leo,

The Tridentine calendar will be used; it couldn't be otherwise since the readings in the Mass follow the calendar.

God bless

[Brenda V.]

Originally Posted by orgel_maestro

Since, normally just doing regular church stuff you'd ask the pastor and in this case you'd have to move a lot of stuff I guess and possibly reinstall altar rails again. (Thank God they never took out the High Altar and the present altar for the Novus Ordo mass is moveable,

The answer to this part of your question/speculations is no you won't have to do anything. probably not even move the NO altar. My parish is new (30 or so years old) so the church architecture never had the High Altar or altar rails like in the OP's church yet we were the designated church for the TLM for a year. It was at 2 p.m. on a Sunday and all that they did to make it possible for kneeling to receive communion was to bring out the individual kneelers.

Brenda V.